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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Koji Yasunaga, Hino, JP;
Inventor:
Koji Yasunaga, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B001/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A surgical apparatus comprises a rigid sheath, an object observation mechanism and an observation optical axis rotating mechanism. The sheath has a distal opening and a proximal opening. The object observation mechanism is inserted into the sheath from the proximal opening. The observation optical axis rotating mechanism rotates the object observation mechanism about the axis of the sheath.